Dossier - March 9, 2016
Dossier: Leading lights
Wageningen has several - for international colleagues - world famous scientists. A compilation of portraits of these ‘leading lights’ can be found in this dossier.
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Taming the antibiotics monster
- Ten years ago, the Dutch livestock sector was a big contributor to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, as a big consumer of antibiotics.... -
Professor Katrien Termeer believes in incremental change: 'There are no simple solutions'
- She has never studied public administration and has spent a large part of her career outside the academic world. Nonetheless, Katrien Termeer has... -
Thirty years in Africa
- Ken Giller, professor of Plant Production Systems, wants to figure out how African farmers can increase their food production. ‘How can we make... -
Wageningen’s Leading Lights: Tinka Murk
- As a child she brought dead birds home to study their skeletons. As a student, one degree programme was not enough for her. Professor Tinka Murk (58)... -
Wageningen’s leading lights: Erwin Bulte
- A corrupt chief generates more progress than a village council. This was one of the surprising findings from Erwin Bulte’s study of power... -
Wageningen’s leading lights: Willem de Vos
- Microbiologist Willem de Vos studies how the microbes that live on and in us determine whether we are healthy or ill. He talks fast, thinks fast and... -
A biologist with a mission
- In a portrait of Wageningen’s most famous biologist Arnold van Vliet you will expect some talk of nature. An even more inevitable topic is... -
Rik Leemans: scenarios for uncertainty
- He is a bridge-builder: someone who brings different disciplines together. So it is ironic that Rik Leemans finds himself in the academic field that...